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@autisticinnovator
If you see a chew that is shiny, it’s not silicone it’s plastic. Silicone is dull and doesn’t shine.
If you see a metallic color chew, that’s toxic paint from 3D printing.
Thin outline chews are impossible to make with silicone.
AI hallucination products in the chew industry is half the industry.
Now you know how to identify the chew scams for yourself.
I go into hyperfocus mode for days in a row sometimes. Especially when there is something for my AuDHD brain to solve for my business. ADHD idea machine brain mixed with the autistic seeing every little detail at once. It is both a magical combination, and my greatest disability.
My Heart Chew Necklaces I designed myself for hard chewers. I finally got the colors accurate, and with a film art style.
The Heart Chew Necklace is Autistic-Designed exclusively for hard chewers to last and not get teeth marks.
📢Urgent PSA for autistics/ADHD/neurodivergents:
I've seen so many of these 2 types of chew necklaces and chew sticks. Do NOT chew on these. They are extremely unsafe.
Hollow Chews:
Anything hollow do not chew! Hollow is flexible with no resistance in the middle, and can break extremely fast, and the pieces are a high risk for choking.
Silicone Bead Necklaces:
The beads are baby teething beads, they are not meant for chewing. They are small and those pieces will break in half and cause choking. The FDA found the teething beads pose a significant threat to the lives of infants and toddlers, so adults should NOT chew those beads.
Age limit: Children 5 years old and younger should NOT chew on chew necklaces. If a pendant or stick cracks, the small child might not know the pendant has become unsafe to chew. The necklace string is also a major risk for a child 5 years old and younger.
If any chewelry cracks, breaks, or sheds pieces of silicone, do NOT keep chewing on it. Those pieces could cause you to choke.
Christmas is coming up, and I want to get this warning out to everyone in case it can stop someone from giving these dangerous chewelry as gifts, or stop someone from giving a chew necklace to a 4 & 5 year old child as a gift. Christmas gifts are to help a loved one feel special, and these could be gifts are extremely dangerous!
I think masking is so hard for us autistics because every time we do it, deep down it makes us feel like we're not good enough.
After a lifetime of being unable to read facial expressions & body language, feeling lost socially, and getting bullied for my autistic ways, I just avoid people.
Part of me wonders if autistics actually prefer being alone, or if we just want to not be bullied anymore.
I get along so well with cats, because we have the same social rules.
Do not approach too quickly
If you're a stranger do not make eye contact. Just sit down nonthreateningly several feet away and pretend you don't notice me
Frequently communicates nonverbally
Will scream when overwhelmed
Responds positively to treats
When I was 12, I would not let myself watch a PG-13 movie because I was not 13 yet. I took the PG-13 rating very literally. My parents said it was okay but I said no I have to be 13. After my 13th birthday, I said okay now I can watch this movie. Somehow the autism was missed.
Sometimes I wonder if my cat Nikita understands me.
Ex: Last night I told her "I miss you sleeping above my head." When I said "I miss you" she perked up like she understood me. 20 minutes later she comes to bed for the 1st time in 5 days and sleeps above my head all night.
I think with ADHD and autism, there’s a fine line between “this thing that I have is bad and makes existing hard” and “This thing I have is bad, so that means I’m bad”
When we get judged harshly by others, and simply existing is hard, it becomes easier to fall into this self-hatred.
But who you are is good, remember that.
Autistic burnout + untreated ADHD =
impulse control issues + inability to force yourself to do anything + drained by no ability to function
Lots of walking pass a mess unable to make yourself clean it, then blame yourself for it.
Distracted, can't focus enough to do fun things and/or take care of yourself.
Forgetting everything. So burned out you can't remember important things + made worse by ADHD.
Constant feelings of self-shame because we can't seem to make ourselves clean, remember things, focus, etc., like it's somehow our fault, even though we can't control it, and we are so burned out we just don't have the energy for anything.
Falling into bad habits that give us a little rush of dopamine because for a moment it makes us feel better.
For a moment, we might feel a little better from the dopamine rush, and get hope that maybe we will get out of autistic burnout.
Not knowing how long burnout lasts + wondering how long will it be before we can get an ADHD assessment, so the psychiatrist can prescribe us ADHD meds. Left to wait and struggle while waiting.
Untreated ADHD can make getting out of autistic burnout seem like it's something in the far out distant future, and left wondering, "When will I feel better?"
ADHD is like: I WANT A BETTA FISH PET
Autism is like: I MUST KNOW EVERYTHING there is to know about Bettas first!
My AuDHD brain is reading a book about Betta fish care and buying everything the book says to buy for a Betta.
All my animals get spoiled with nice things and live luxurious lifestyles.
so when wikipedians write dozens of pages on their favorite subject it's "volunteering" and "contributing to the spread of free knowledge" but when I do that it's called "restrictive interests" and "autism"
Neurotypical Person: "Just talk to people. Stop being afraid of rejection. The only way you'll fail is if you don't even try. Have some confidence."
Autistic Person: (asks whatever questions they can think of from a prepared list and the conversation ends up being awkward and forced)
Autistic Person: (infodumps about their special interest and gets labeled as annoying)
Autistic Person: (comments on something they observe and gets labeled as judgmental)
Autistic Person: (approaches random people in random places, not realizing that there are some places where people don't expect to be approached, and gets threatened)
Autistic Person: (talks to someone, misses a subtle cue that they want to be left alone, and gets labeled as disrespectful of boundaries)
Autistic Person: (tries to join someone's conversation and gets labeled as an eavesdropper)
Autistic Person: (teases someone as a joke because they've seen that that's how a lot of people interact with each other, not realizing that they don't have enough of a connection with this person to do that, and gets labeled as mean)
Autistic Person: (tries to talk to someone who's already talking to someone else and gets labeled as rude for interrupting, and waiting until they're alone to avoid interrupting isn't an option because that rarely ever happens)
Autistic Person: (approaches someone or faces in their general direction while trying to think of what to say to them, and gets labeled as a creep for hovering or staring)
Autistic Person: (talks to someone too often and gets labeled as clingy)
Autistic Person: (talks to someone, by some miracle it works and this person actually enjoys the conversation, but now they have to do it again and again and again, and they eventually run out of things to talk about or do something wrong)
Autistic Person: "I don't get it. I talked to people. I did exactly what I was told to do. And I didn't say anything sexual, anything gross, anything about death, or anything else that would be considered 'obvious'. But it didn't work. It can't be because I did something wrong, because I followed the advice exactly and so many people insisted that that's all I have to do. There must be something wrong with me. Maybe I'm just unattractive."
It wasn't that long ago when I had zero self-worth and no self-esteem.
It was obliterated by a lifetime of people bullying me because I'm different, but I didn't know I'm autistic most of my life.
Because I didn't know, I landed in so many bad situations I blamed myself for getting into. Naively trusting people and taking their word literally. I didn't know that my autistic default was to forget lying exists.
I'd say things in social situations that would get me mocked and disliked and I didn't know why what I said was bad, so I just assumed I must be bad.
I have been so easy to manipulate all my life. Because of how I felt unloved all of my childhood and adult years, I was desperate to be loved and thought no one would ever love me. I figured it was because I was defective and my fault, but I didn't know I am autistic.
Once I broke it down and took the walls down with myself in January, I realized I didn't know my autistic self at all. It's been a 5 year long process.
I didn't even know what I wanted to do with my life until I had been running The Autistic Innovator for 2 years.
I spent so much time pouring all of my heart and love into the store, and it was 2 years in that I realized I really love what I do and the community I serve.
All of this to say...
If you are new to your autistic self, please be patient with yourself. You will learn who you are and find the strength to withstand the hardship of existing as an autistic in a neurotypical world.
Remember, even though I'm as out as it gets, it still took me 5 years to know my autistic self.
Tell yourself, "Who I am is good" and "I deserve a happy autistic life" and one day, you will believe it with all your heart.
Much love to you.
I'm so frustrated. It's like my brain doesn't work. I can have all the motivation in the world but then I can't actually DO anything. Because there is just this stupid mental block. And I don't know what to do about it anymore. I can't do things I want to do, I can't do things I need to do. I can't do anything. I talk to my parents but they don't know how to help. I talk to my therapist but they don't know how to help. I don't know who to reach out to anymore. All I know is I really need help. But I don't know where to get it from. I am just so fucking exhausted. I feel like I'm wasting my life because I'm so damn stuck.
